In a recent article in the New York Times, David Zincenko argues that teenagers are forced onto unhealthy eating habits. Teenagers want cheap food so they are inclined to eat dinner at fast food restaurants, increasing obesity. He complains “where, exactly are consumers—particularly teenagers—supposed to find alternatives?” If a person really wants to find a reason for their weight gain, why do they always have to blame someone else? It is not extremely difficult to find healthy food at a grocery store or at someone’s home.
“Shouldn’t we know better than to eat two meals a day in fast-food restaurants,” Zincenko admits. Americans tend to be lazy and blame their weaknesses on something other than themselves. There are grocery stores in most towns that have stocks of healthy food options, people just need to take the initiative to take an extra step to find what they want.
Summary 2
David Zincenko fights in his New York Times article that the “lack of information about what, exactly, we’re consuming,” is becoming ridiculous. Health professionals argue that there are no calorie information charts on any fast-food containers today, which is unfair to consumers. Fast food companies are the target of many law suits today for causing childhood obesity. They fail to market to the children the lack of nutritional value in their food and fail to place warning labels on their products.
What is the world coming too? Every year there is an increase in childhood obesity, making more people sick, angry, and overweight. If we want to make our world a healthy place to live in, fast food companies need to make an effort to warn people of the damage their food can do to the body if eaten too often, or change their menu to have more health value.
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